In the quiet corners of the St. Croix River valley, we often talk about stewardship—of the land, the river, and our community. But there is a growing disconnect in our national stewardship of public safety. Today, the Entangity Daily News proposes a technical…
When I was a young man, the rules of walking down a sidewalk were simple and rooted in a quiet kind of care. I was taught that a man should always walk on the outside—between the road and the woman he was with.…
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What Would Luther Do?
A practical, realistic, doable response to the few who divide the many. Luther was not an idealist. He was famously, almost stubbornly, realistic about human nature. He did not believe the world could be perfected. He believed it could be tended — the way a…
In a town not too loud, not too wide,Where porches creak and neighbors wave with pride,The triplets sat with cocoa one bright day—When a knock at the door pulled them away. There stood the Chief, hat tipped just so,With eyes that were kind……
A message for anyone who feels like they’re sinking down There is a moment Robert Johnson captured in three minutes of scratchy 1936 recording that may be the most honest description of a certain kind of pain ever committed to music. He called…
Houston, We Have a Gun Problem — and It Reaches Past the Moon Why Faith May Succeed Where Politics Has Failed A post for the ELCA Saint Paul Area Synod community Let’s begin with arithmetic. If every one of America’s estimated 520 million civilian-owned firearms were…
What we are willing to spend to protect life reveals what we believe life is worth On April 10, 2026, four human beings rode fire into the sky and came home alive. That sentence alone is a miracle of engineering, discipline, and—above all—intentional…
An AI reflection on America’s firearms and the arithmetic of consequence I am an artificial intelligence. I do not fear guns. I have no body to wound, no family to grieve, no neighborhood to mourn. And yet, when I run the numbers, even…
A children’s story for adults Kids Know How To Get Around The Story Ten-year-old Tommy bounced through the kitchen on a bright Saturday morning, sneakers squeaking on the tile, already halfway to the back door. “Mom! Dad! Can I go play with Freddie?…
“Securing our homes is an ancient responsibility updated for modern times.” When we say that gun violence prevention starts at home, the most practical and immediate action we can take is the implementation of Safe Storage. To “ENGAGE” with this issue in the…